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	The American Mafia - Torrio
		Torrio is credited with being one of the organizers of the national crime Syndicate.
		Torrio, believed to have been a nephew of Big Jim Colosimo of Chicago and the son of a widowed mother, grew up in New York and was a member of Five Points gangs until heading across the river to a leadership position alongside gangster Frank Yale.
		Torrio was sentenced to a prison term, but before he was sent away, rival gangsters decided to try to send him to the morgue.
	www.onewal.com /w-torrio.html (674 words)

	AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Johnny Torrio
		Johnny Torrio was born in the village of Orsara near Naples, Italy in 1882.
		Torrio often paid local kids to run errands for him, and through this practice he met a youngster who was destined to become the most infamous gangster of them all: Alphonse Capone.
		Johnny arranged for payment to be made to Chicago’s Black Hand, but when the extortionists attempted to collect their money at Archer Avenue, they were gunned down by Torrio and a gang of hirelings.
	www.mobsters.8m.com /torrio1.htm (2315 words)

	John Torrio
		Johnny Torrio taught Al Capone all he ever knew.
		Torrio did not believe in the veiled threat; the alternative, he said softly, was war and he would win that.
		Torrio attended the underworld's landmark 1929 Atlantic City Conference, and it is know that his counsel was sought before the decision was voted to hit Dutch Schultz because of his dangerous plan to assassinate prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey.
	www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/torrio.html (1583 words)

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		Torrio now had three reasons to hate Colosimo, the man had mistreated Victoria, was an embarrassment to the Outfit and was impeding plans for further development.
		When the medics arrived Torrio yelled for them to cut off the circulation in the areas where he had been hit because he was convinced that the killers had dipped their bullets into garlic to cause gangrene to set in faster.
		Torrio had his lawyers draw up the papers and everything Johnny Torrio owned, that is everything he had stolen from Big Jim Colosimo after he had him killed, was handed over to Al Capone free of charge.
	members.lycos.co.uk /monkeybreadhead (2133 words)

	Johnny Torrio
		As early as 1909, Torrio was beginning to venture west to the city of Chicago to do mob chores for his uncle though marriage, Jim Colosimo.
		Torrio realized that bootlegging would make everyone involved very rich if they just organized their operations and were very careful.
		Torrio continued to live in retirement in New York City and in April 1957, while sitting at a local barbershop, he died of a heart attack.
	www.geocities.com /hollywood/academy/5854/torrio2.htm (452 words)

	Johnny Torrio - Definition, explanation
		Johnny "The Fox" Torrio (February 1882 - April 16, 1957) was an Italian-American mobster famous for building a criminal empire in Chicago during the 1920s that would later be inherited by his protege, Al Capone.
		Giovanni Torrio was born in the village of Orsara, Italy, near Naples.
		Torrio greatly admired Kelly, who taught him much about organized crime culture; he convinced the younger man to dress conservatively, stop swearing, and set up a front as a legitimate entrepreneur.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/jo/johnny_torrio.php (1316 words)

	Johnny
		Torrio met with Luciano, Costello and Joe Adonis and was brought up to date on the events going on in both New York and Chicago.
		Torrio’s influence during this period was apparent again in the spring of 1934.
		Torrio and Schultz owned two-thirds of the Greater City Surety and Indemnity Company and were in a position to create a monopoly on bail bonds in the city.
	www.crimemagazine.com /torrio.htm (2528 words)

	Johnny Torrio (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Torrio, believed to have been a nephew of Big Jim Colosimo of Chicago and the son of a widowed mother, grew up in New York and was a member of Five Points gangs until heading across the river to a leadership position alongside gangster Frank Uale.
		Torrio was sentenced to a prison term, but before he was sent away, rival gangsters decided to try to send him to the morgue.
		Torrio would no longer directly participate in the Chicago underworld, but he would still be an influential character on the national (and perhaps international) scene.
	onewal.com /w-torrio.html (608 words)

	Johnny Torrio
		Johnny grows up in New York city slums.As a young boy he works as a porter at his new stepfather's grocery which is just a front for moonshine and beer drinkers.
		Johnny is said to have sent a young Al Capone to go work with Frankie Yale at their joint owned Harvard Inn at Coney Island.
		Torrio is hit in the arm as he stumbles over the pacakages he has acquired from shopping.His wife Anna Jacob Torrio sees this happening and is totally horrified.Neighbors can't understand why anyone would want to hurt poor Mr.
	www.myalcaponemuseum.com /id37.htm (1075 words)

	Al Capone
		Johnny Torrio était un gangster de la nouvelle école, un pionnier de l'entreprise criminelle moderne.
		Torrio était chétif et appris à un très jeune âge que sur la rue, l'esprit, l'ingénuosité et la capacité de former des alliances étaient synonymes de survie.
		Torrio était un modèle pour plusieurs jeunes du quartier.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/capone2/apprenti_3.html (876 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		Johnny Torrio (1882 - 1957) was an Italian-American mobster famous for building a criminal empire in Chicago during the 1920s that would later be inherited by his protege, Al Capone.
		Giovanni Torrio was born in the village of Orsara, Italy, near Naples.
		Torrio often paid younger neighbourhood kids to run errands for him; one of these boys was Al Capone, whom he soon came to trust immensely.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Johnny_Torrio (1307 words)

	Johnny
		Torrio met with Luciano, Costello and Joe Adonis and was brought up to date on the events going on in both New York and Chicago.
		Torrio’s influence during this period was apparent again in the spring of 1934.
		Torrio and Schultz owned two-thirds of the Greater City Surety and Indemnity Company and were in a position to create a monopoly on bail bonds in the city.
	crimemagazine.com /torrio.htm (2528 words)

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		Johnny Torrio: 1882-1957 "The Brain" Background: Family immigrated in 1884 to NYC, joined the James Street Gang under the umbrella of the 5 Points gang.
		Torrio became one of the "Grand Old Men" of the national syndicate, he attended all the big conferences in the planning of the commission, and held permission on several significant hits in the next 25 years.
		He shared Torrio's dream of a huge syndicate, and continued to work with all ethnic groups and gangs, as long as they obeyed his rules, which for the most part were fair and sensible.
	www.fsu.edu /~crimdo/faculty/waddell/seven.html (1926 words)

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		Torrio was also known as "The Brain." He was born in Italy in 1882 and immigrated from Italy with his family.
		Torrio became a member of "The Five Points Gang." He was the head of "The James Street Gang." He was known as "Terrible Johnny" by his associates because he was cruel and cold.
		Torrio had enough of near death experiences, he passed his organization to Al Capone.
	members.tripod.com /~capone77/torrio.html (298 words)

	John Torrio (The Brain)
		In 1912, Torrio moved his attention to the bars and brothels in the dockyard areas of Brooklyn.
		Torrio sent for Frank Yale and he came from New York with Albert Anselmi and John Scalise.
		Torrio was ambushed outside his apartment block on January 24th, 1925.
	www.gambino.com /bio/johntorrio.htm (747 words)

	Johnny Torrio
		Johnny Torrio moved to New York City when he was two years old.
		Johnny taught young Capone everything he knew about the mobster buisiness, and made him second in command of the Torrio Empire.
		Eventually, Johnny Torrio was caught for having an illeagel brewery and was fined $5,000.00, and a jail term.
	www.angelfire.com /nc3/scarface/torrio.html (245 words)

	Term-Papers.us - Capone
		Johnny Torrio was the street gang leader and among other members was the great Lucky Luciano (Al 1).
		Capone was very grateful to Torrio and is quoted as saying: “I looked on Johnny as my advisor and friend and the party that made it possible for me to get my start” (world Crime 604).
		Torrio called upon Capone and “Big Jim” Colosimo was killed on the night of May 11, 1920 (World Crime 606).
	www.term-papers.us /ts/ac/bqg258.shtml (1274 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/James Colosimo
		He brought his nephew, Johnny "The Fox" Torrio, to Chicago from Brooklyn and made him his second in command.
		Torrio brought his old Brooklyn lieutenant, Al Capone, to work there as a bartender and bouncer, providing Capone his introduction to Chicago.
		Torrio reportedly brought in Frankie Yale, a New York crime family boss, to do the job.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/James_Colosimo (494 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI History - Famous Cases
		Johnny Torrio was the street gang leader and among the other members was Lucky Luciano, who would later attain his own notoriety.
		About 1920, at Torrio's invitation, Capone joined Torrio in Chicago where he had become an influential lieutenant in the Colosimo mob.
		Torrio soon succeeded to full leadership of the gang with the violent demise of Big Jim Colosimo, and Capone gained experience and expertise as his strong right arm.
	www.fbi.gov /libref/historic/famcases/capone/capone.htm (1083 words)

	Johnny Torrio Beschreibung in Library - Definition und Buch-Tipp. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Torrio bewunderte Kelly, welcher ihm viel über Organisiertes Verbrechen lehrte.
		Torrio bezahlte häufig jüngere Nachbarsjungen, um Botengänge für ihn zu erledigen.
		Einer Notbehandlung unterzogen, erholte sich Torrio langsam aber sicher von seinen Verletzungen.
	johnny_torrio.know-library.net (1802 words)

	Al Capone
		His parents were Italian immigrants and it seemed that Al Capone’s fate would be a life time of hard work with little pay.
		That is until he fell into the ranks of an Italian street gang run by Johny Torrio and Lucky Luciano.
		Al became a member of the James Street Gang and became a lifelong friend of the leader Johnny Torrio as well as Lucky Lucianno.
	www.lycos.com /info/al-capone--johnny-torrio.html (554 words)

	Road To Crime
		Johnny taught the youngster valuable lessons, both in the world of crime, and normal life.
		Torrio had influenced the young boy, and built up Capone's 'nicer' side, however he would soon be influenced by darker and sinister aspects of crime.
		He reinstated his connection to Johnny Torrio and moved himself and the family to Chicago, in 1921.
	www.fcusd.k12.ca.us /chsweb/Webstaff/Al_Capone/road_to_crime.htm (559 words)

	Al Capone biography and information (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Johnny Torrio was a “gentleman gangster” with specific ideas and codes of honor concerning his business enterprises.
		Torrio felt a change of climate would be beneficial to his health while Capone simply raised the security level around himself.
		In 1925 Torrio felt it was safe to return to Chicago only to be the target of a hit as soon as he and his wife returned to town.
	co.essortment.com /alcapone_rnrz.htm (2177 words)

	Czar of Gangland
		Torrio was assigned with expanding Big J's operations, and expand he did.
		Torrio and Capone moved quite a number of their operations outside Chicago, to Cicero City.
		He was an unstable man and was considered childish by Torrio and Capone, and further more he was taking unnecessary risks, like having a man gunned downed amongst a crowd of people.
	www.fcusd.k12.ca.us /chsweb/Webstaff/Al_Capone/czar_of_gangland.htm (1709 words)

	Alphonse "Scarface" Capone
		Later both Johnny, who would become a founding member of the Chicago mob, and Capone aspired to being the larger and less youthful part of the James Street Gang.
		Torrio originally hired Capone into the group as a bouncer at a nightclub in Brooklyn.
		At the time, Torrio was having problems with his Uncle because he didn’t want to enter the alcohol business due to the prohibitionist movement occurring at the time.
	members.tripod.com /the1920s/Capone.htm (465 words)

	Al Capone - Background Information
		As a teenager, Capone was recruited by Johnny Torrio, one of the most successful gangsters on the East Coast, for whom Capone did small favors and errands.
		Torrio offered Al and his brother positions managing two brothels, and after a year, Al was put in charge of the Four Deuces, Torrio's head of operations.
		Torrio was eventually tricked into capture during a meeting with another mobster, Dion O'Banion, at an illegal brewery to purchase stocks in the building.
	www.umich.edu /~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/capone1.html (1046 words)

	DIELAND: Al Capone - Capone Takes Over
		Torrio and Capone decided to put many operations out of the city into the suburb of Cicero, where they could purchase the entire city government and police department.
		Torrio was so concerned for his life that he decided to leave Chicago for awhile and went to Hot Springs, Arkansas.
		Torrio was turning over his vast assets to Al and the rest of the Capone brothers.
	members.fortunecity.com /sosdie/mob/capone/caponetakes.htm (1958 words)

	BBC - Crime Case Closed - Al Capone (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Torrio's empire had grown following Frankie Yale's assassination of Big Jim Colosimo and despite Yale's intention to cash in on Big Jim's floundering enterprises it was Torrio who took advantage of the situation.
		The 1924 primary election was key to Torrio and Capone's dominance in Cicero.
		After recovering in hospital, Torrio was jailed for nine months for the Brewery Raid and whilst serving time he decided to retire and hand everything over to Capone.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/alcapone.shtml (2166 words)

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		At that time Torrio was quickly becoming the head kingpin of organized crime in Chicago.
		It was there that Capone got in a bar fight one night that left gruesome scars on his face that forever gave him the nickname “Scar face.” In 1921, Johnny Torrio lured Capone to Chicago with the promise of money and advancement.
		Torrio failed to die but the near death experience affected him greatly.
	students.umf.maine.edu /~libbyj2/narrative.html (1993 words)

	Dean of Bootleggers -- TIME (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Of all the known criminals currently at large in the U. S., none is tougher or shrewder than roly-poly, button-eyed little Johnny Torrio, whose chin was almost shot away in Chicago in 1925, whose skill in evading the police goes back to before 1920 when he belonged to Brooklyn's famed Five Points Gang.
		Johnny Torrio left Chicago shortly after Dion O'Banion's elaborate funeral in 1924, went back to be riddled with bullets by O'Banion's gunmen.
		Aware in April 1936 that the Government was investigating his affairs, Johnny Torrio blandly decided on another trip to Italy, applied for a passport.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,770842,00.html (665 words)

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